* 1947 – The first Tony Awards are presented for theatrical achievement.

* 1947 – John Ratzenberger, American actor

* 1947 – Mike Worboys, British mathematician

* 1947 – André Weinfeld, French and American Film Director / Producer

* 1947 – Alex Briley, American singer ( Village People )

* 1947 – Tom Clancy, American author

* 1947 – Woody Johnson, American businessman and philanthropist

* 1947 – Antonin Kratochvil, Czech-American photographer

* 1947 – Dan Lauria, American actor

* 1947 – David Letterman, American comedian and talk show host

* 1947 – Wayne Northrop, American actor

* 1947 – In Nevada, the Boulder Dam is renamed Hoover Dam a second time.

* 1947 – Leslie Grantham, English actor

* 1947 – Finn Kalvik, Norwegian singer and composer

* 1947 – Tom Køhlert, Danish footballer

* 1947 – Manousos Manousakis, Greek director and producer

* 1947 – Mats Odell, Swedish politician

* 1947 – Barbara Bach, American actress

* 1947 – Peter Krieg, German director, producer, and writer ( d. 2009 )

* 1947 – John Morrison, New Zealand cricketer

* 1947 – Gavin Pfuhl, South African cricketer ( d. 2002 )

* 1947 – Harry Reems, American actor

* 1947 – Tony Dell, Australian cricketer

* 1874 – Reynaldo Hahn, Venezuelan composer and conductor ( d. 1947 )

* 1947 – Roy Hodgson, English footballer and manager

* 1947 – Josef Janíček, Czech songwriter, keyboardist and guitarist, member of The Plastic People of the Universe

* 1947 – Vladimír Mišík, Czech singer-songwriter ( Blue Effect, Flamengo )

* 1947 – Jaroslav Erno Šedivý, Czech rock drummer ( The Primitives Group, Life After Life )

Due to the expulsion of the German residents after WW II the Czech Republic lost about 3 million inhabitants and in 1947 the population was only 8. 8 million.

In 1947 Pargeter visited Czechoslovakia and became fascinated by the Czech language and culture.

* Helena Vondráčková ( born 1947 ), Czech singer

Carl Ferdinand Cori ForMemRS ( December 5, 1896 – October 20, 1984 ) was a Czech biochemist and pharmacologist born in Prague ( then in Austria-Hungary, now Czech Republic ) who, together with his wife Gerty Cori and Argentine physiologist Bernardo Houssay, received a Nobel Prize in 1947 for their discovery of how glycogen ( animal starch ) – a derivative of glucose – is broken down and resynthesized in the body, for use as a store and source of energy.

In 1947, Czech immigrant Charles Bacik, grandfather of Irish senator Ivana Bacik, established a glass works in the city, due to the superb reputation of the original glassware.

Poland has maintained a museum, archive, and research centre at Oświęcim, better known by its German name of Auschwitz, since a July 2, 1947 act of the Polish Parliament, while Czechoslovakia established in the same year what was known first as the National Suffering Memorial and later simply as the Terezín memorial in Terezín, Czech Republic, better known for its part in the Holocaust as Theresienstadt.

Two Czech films by František Vláčil, Shadows of a Hot Summer ( Stíny horkého léta, 1977 ) and The Little Shepherd Boy From The Valley ( Pasáček z doliny, 1983 ) are set in 1947, and feature UPA guerrillas in significant supporting roles.

* Jan Jesenský ( 1870 – 1947 ), Czech scientist, professor of Charles University

* Karel Ančerl conducting the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, studio recording from 1962, Supraphon ( 1947 version )

Neumann left to pursue conducting in 1947, at which point Rybensky went to the viola desk and Jiří Novák ( who shared first violin desk with Josef Vlach, founder of the Vlach Quartet, under Vaclav Talich in the Czech Chamber Orchestra ) came in as first violin.

The result was his first feature film Špalíček (" The Czech years ", 1947 ), based on a book illustrated by Mikoláš Aleš.

* Špalíček (" The Czech Year ", 1947 )

* Karel Anděl ( 1884 – 1947 ), Czech astronomer and selenographer

Karel Anděl ( December 28, 1884 – March 17, 1947 ) was a Czech astronomer and selenographer.

Jiří Bartoška ( born March 24, 1947 in Děčín ) is a Czech actor and the president of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.

Jaroslav Perner ( March 28, 1869 in Týnec nad Labem – June 9, 1947 in Prague ) was a Czech paleontologist.

Černousy ( name used since 1947, ) is a village in the Liberec Region of the Czech Republic.

In Hollywood, she performed in several movies: she was the murder suspect Maddalena Paradine in Alfred Hitchcock's The Paradine Case ( 1947 ), and the mysterious Czech refugee wanted by the Russians in post-war Vienna in Carol Reed's The Third Man ( 1949 ).

Zdeněk Zeman ( born May 12, 1947 in Prague ) is a Czech football coach.

In 1947, two years after the end of World War II, only 1, 588 inhabitants lived here, mostly Czech colonists from Prague.